Sometimes it seems to me that my catalog of cloth pictures reads like a stream of unfinished projects. Actually, it turns the stomach, sometimes. Proof of need for an intervention!
I’m going to look back ONE YEAR and find a couple of featured projects and finish them roughly within that month (I mean, September is 2/3’s gone already). This is going to be ‘my thing’. I want to try this as a tool, though, and not as a ‘thing’ (i.e. “My Year of Finishing Work”, blah blah blah).
A little structure. A little time pressure. In conjunction, the two COULD work.
I hope that this process will be a lot like deciding not to grocery shop in my husband’s absence this week. Instead, I made do with what little was in the fridge. How gratifying it was (absurdly gratifying?)!
Sometimes, I will first have to FIND the thing. But’s that okay, and probably good and necessary.
The one above just needs a binding and dowel sleeve (well, and the intention to finish — that’s the point here).
Furthermore (and this is critical!), I here before you pledge not to get bogged down in the “PROBLEM” of what to do with the finished pieces. My Etsy store is deadsville and I can’t quite bring myself to sign up for any sales this fall. In fact, my domain name is up for renewal in a few weeks and I’m considering letting the website go. I mean, I never go there. Does anyone else?!!
Streamlining, focusing, empowering.
Huh. And not to get too, too ambitious here, I have the same need with books. So, I will embark upon a parallel process with those.
There! A pledge. Two pledges.
And, of course, the Hearts for Charleston Quilt takes priority.
i feel a need for less. but you know that.
Yes. One of many parallel things. It is remarkable to me how true “less is more” is and on how many levels.
a website is like bricks and mortar in the cyber sea, it adds a sense of weight to the transient nature of the social media sites like blogs, instagram, facebook, etc.
Gosh you have a lot of irons in the fire, how is the book going?!
PS the circle & dot pieces look finished to me!
Re: website — I know. That’s why I’ve kept it. It doesn’t feel very alive though. Maybe I should tweak it up a bit. It doesn’t cost much to keep. The book is coming. That is the main thing in fact. The sewing comes in between (part of why I am not working on selling or showing or teaching right now). I don’t talk about it much here and as much as I sometimes would like to, it’s important to keep my boundaries there intact.
I very much like this idea of going back a year …
September ENERGY
Yeah! I have always loved the fall!
Its interesting how reviewing the past can help us move forward. The spiral of life is sometimes a spring.
Returning as a way forward is a spiral isn’t it? Thanks for the image.
Don’t stop your blog! I finish things because I see yours.
Not stopping!